Editorial Notes

W h ile r e c e n t l y in a Gig Harbor, Washington, book store, I caught sight of a volume with the intriguing title The Geography Club. Barely able to contain my excitement, I started to read the dust cover, only to have my initial glee turn to glum. Seems that the book is about a group of self-selecting high school students who wished to meet anonymously and so picked a club name that they thought sounded so boring that no one outside the group would even consider at­ tending any of their meetings. I suppose when reading such things or having to answer the inevitable question at a party ("Isn't geography just a 5th grade sub­ ject?") it's easy to fall into Rodney Dangerfield Syndrome (RDS; "We don't get no respect"). Consolation, though, comes easily with the realization that APCG and like organizations are "geography clubs" whose meetings are attended by self-selecting individuals whose interests run the gamut from places to people to plants to patterns to processes, in both past and present. I like these gatherings and look forward to them each year. My hope is that as you're reading this volume of the Yearbook, you're also making plans to attend the meeting in Portland. Besides what promises to be a very enjoyable and rewarding time, you can also check out Powell's for other in­ triguing book titles! I hope you enjoy this edition of the Yearbook. I wish to thank all of the contributors for their initial efforts at producing fine research and for putting up with my quibbling during the editorial process. I also thank the individuals who supplied the various texts, photos, and other materials that go into each volume. Finally, I thank the usual cast of characters whose behind-the-scenes efforts are invalu­ able to the production of the Yearbook. Darrick Danta California State University, Northridge

Haldane, and installed him with due solemnity. The Vice-Chancellor then presented the new Chancellor with a patent of the Degree of Doctor of Laws. Then the Chancellor proceeded to admit to honorary degrees the Right Hon. Miss Margaret Bondfield (Minister of Labour), Admiral Sir Roger Keyes, K.C.B., the Right Hon. Walter Runciman, P.C., M.P., the Right Hon. Philip Snowden (Chancellor of the Exchequer), Dr. Thomas Sibly (Vice-Chancellor of the University of Reading), Mr. Walter de la Mare, and Dr. Vaughan Williams. In the evening the members of Council and Senate, together with the honorary graduates, dined in the Reception Room at the University, under the Chairmanship of the Chancellor, Mrs. Churchill being present also.
On the morning of Saturday, 14th December, Mr. Churchill addressed the undergraduates at the Union Club (Victoria Rooms), and then proceeded to Wills Hall, which he declared formally " open." In the evening a reception was held in the University and Art Gallery, at which guests to the number of 2,000 or more were present.
The new Chancellor was in his best form. He gave the impression that he was thoroughly enjoying himself, and whilst he could be dignified enough when occasion required, he diffused an atmosphere of geniality and wit which gave promise that in his capacity of University Chancellor his personality would not be subdued by the weight of his academic robes and the golden tassel of his college cap.

Research
Society.
By a splendid gift of ?5,000 Mr.

R. H. Mardon has created a new position for the Colston Research
Society. It will be necessary for the Society to obtain a charter of incorporation so that it may have a proper legal status and be empowered to hold trust funds. Mr. Mardon has added a further ?100 to his gift to meet the cost of incorporation. This is an encouraging recognition of a Society which has done a great deal for the University, and it is to be hoped that its activities will now be more widely appreciated by the public. When in the course of a few years the idea of a University for Bristol began to emerge into the region of practical politics, Mr. Arrowsmith directed all the influence and activity of the Colston Society towards this goal. In 1909 the University obtained its Charter, and the one aim of the Society was achieved. Mr.
Arrowsmith was disinclined to let so useful an organization dissolve because success had followed its efforts in one particular direction. A new objective was set, namely to appeal for funds for the support and furtherance of research work in the University.
When James Arrowsmith died in 1913 the secretarial work of the Society was taken up by his nephew, James Arrowsmith-Brown, under whom there has been no relaxing of energy. Public interest has been still further stimulated, and the commercial and industrial community have given increasing support to the appeal of the Society for funds to enable research work to be undertaken. Altogether the sum of over ?15,000 has been raised by the Society, apart from Mr. Mardon's gift, and applied first in the cause of higher education and then of research. Hitherto the Society has only had its annual contributions to allocate and distribute; now Mr. R. H. Mardon's gift has put the Society in the embarrassing position of owning trust funds, and in order that it may legally (and all Statutes of Mortmain notwithstanding) hold and administer such funds the Society must become Incorporated.